Geriatric Doctors To Manage Elderly Parent's Care
What is a geriatric doctor or care manager and how can they help caregivers and their elderly parents? A geriatric doctor is a like a case manager who provides a variety of services for seniors and caregivers, including coordinating elderly medical care, finding community resources, and finding legal or financial assistance.
Articles About Geriatric Doctors
- What to Do When You Feel Your Parent Is Being Over-Treated
Doctors have been accused of over-treating elderly patients and prescribing unnecessary medical procedures.
- Search for Qualified Geriatric Doctors and Psychiatrists
Caregivers: Find qualified geriatric doctors for your senior parent in your area.
- Hospital Hints for Caregivers and Their Elderly Parents
What caregivers should expect and plan for when their elderly parent has a stay in the hospital.
- Treatments for Depression
Left untreated, depression can lead to suicide. But there is no need for a person to suffer. There are many treatments available for depression.
Q&A with the Experts on Geriatric Doctors
- If mom has a geriatrician does she still need her family doctor?
Caring for the elderly is really an interdisciplinary process.In addition to primary care physicians, other team members that can help elderly parents and their relatives are social workers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech/language therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, cardiologists, urologists and neurologists.
Click to read Dr. Levy's full answer.
- What is a Geriatrician?
A geriatrician is a medical doctor with additional training and experience in assessing and treating problems in older people.
- How can a geriatric care manager help a long-distance caregiver?
Geriatric care managers, GCMs for short, act as a more knowledgeable you--informing you and your parent about what kind of care alternatives are available within the community and helping you assess all the medical, financial and legal issues involved with any given choice.
- Does a doctor have to "prescribe" rehabilitation for an elder?
Regulations regarding physical, occuptional and speech therapy vary by state. Check with providers in your area to see if your father needs a doctor's referral before getting rehabilitation.
- Why Do Alzheimer's Patients Forget to Eat or Swallow?
Alzheimer's patients sometimes do forget automatic actions such as chewing, swallowing or eating.
News about Geriatric Doctors
- Super Committee Failure Puts Elderly and their Doctors in Tough Spot
Doctors for the elderly may soon be hard to find because of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction's failure to come up with a plan to reduce the national debt. A new proposal has been triggered that will effect every American—including caregivers and their elderly parents.
- Patient-Doctor-Caregiver: Demystifying the Dynamic
The relationship between an elderly patient and doctor shifts when a caregiver is in the exam room. Caregivers often wonder whether they should go to doctor's visits with their elderly loved one and some research says they should stay.
- For Patients and Caregivers, Study Could Open Door to Doctor’s Thoughts
The OpenNotes Project was designed to determine how sharing doctor's notes with patients would affect the quality of the health care they received. The ability to share doctors notes with the patient can increase quality of care.
- Study Shows Startling Lack of Doctor Communication About Feeding Tube Insertion
A gastric feeding tube represents one way to nourish dementia-stricken elders who lose the ability to eat. However, research indicates that many doctors are not having discussions with caregivers regarding the pros and cons of feeding tube insertion.